The Vultures

In prehistoric times, the island of Menorca was populated by the Taliotic people. When the Romans came, they recruited these Taliotic people to fight for them as slingers. How exactly do you compensate or convince a society that doesn’t deal in any sort of monetary values to fight for you?…

…women. You offer to pay the men with more women. See, Menorca, at that time was lacking women, and the funny thing is, that as of this day, nothing has changed. Take a look at this picture:

the vultures

We call this picture “The Vultures”. Notice the line of creepy Menorcan guys in the smokey background ready to pownce. Our final, glorious Saturday night out in Menorca was basically hours of running away from these vultures. Nope, nothing has changed.

Posted November 13, 2007 in: Spain

By on November 13, 2007 in Spain

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2 Responses to The Vultures

  1. Mike November 14, 2007 at 10:24 am #

    Ha ha … I didn’t even pick up on them at first. But man, that’s creepy.

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  2. Philip February 24, 2011 at 3:57 am #

    Menorca continues to facinate me with its history and close historic ties with Britain.

    But the most facinating thing to me is that Menorca is an anagram of Romance!
    See if it works for you!

    Reply

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